What Matters Now, IMHO

What do you get when you combine a popular author and blogger with a bunch of other authors, bloggers, and thinkers who have something to say? You get this free ebook. According to Seth Godin, who conceived of and organized the book, it includes mini-articles from “more than seventy big thinkers, each sharing an idea for you to think about as we head into the new year.”

The fact that many of the articles in this ebook are overtly (or sometimes covertly) self serving made me flinch a few times as I read it. Obviously many of these authors have a vested interest in promoting certain opinions and trends. But that’s always the case, right? It doesn’t change the fact that there are some great messages in this book. At the very least it provides a wonderful list of ideas to consider, including some that we probably don’t often contemplate such as parsing, neoteny, being dumb, nobody, slow capital, and mesh.

If you haven’t read the book, you may be a little confused. Good. That will get you thinking. And to add my unsolicited opinions and commentary to the mix, I’m going to choose ideas and messages from this book and expand upon them in this blog. My slant will be about how you can use these ideas to improve your life, your career, and your business.

First up: Willpower. What is it, do all of us have it, and does it work? Stay tuned…